Attitudes to Disposal of the Dead - Gazetteer Query Form

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Note that there may be a few slight discrepancies between counts given in the text and the returned results in the gazetteer. This is a result of corrections and amendments (not updates) made to the gazetteer since the research was published in BAR. This does not materially affect the picture presented but does add more detail.

Site name Coburg Road, Fordington, Dorchester

Site number 1673

Burial codes 4002 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4085 4092 4098 4104 4111 4112 4128 4143 4153 4181

2500bc-14/1300bc Four or possibly five ring ditches in an EW alignment over c120m. Between ring ditches 3 and 4 were two shallow pits c3.5m apart containing cremations, one of an adult accompanied by fragments of one vessel of Middle Bronze Age date, both components evenly distributed through the pit fill. The other contained just the cremated bone from one adult. No cremation represented a complete body.

Remains/Period Y4

County Dorset

Region S

National grid square SY

X coordinate 678

Y coordinate 899

Bibliographic source Smith, Rawlings and Barnes 1992

Query

Site name	Coburg Road, Fordington, Dorchester
Site number	1673
Burial codes	4002 4005 4021 4023 4026 4028 4030 4041 4045 4051 4065 4075 4084 4085 4092 4098 4104 4111 4112 4128 4143 4153 4181
2500bc-14/1300bc	Four or possibly five ring ditches in an EW alignment over c120m. Between ring ditches 3 and 4 were two shallow pits c3.5m apart containing cremations, one of an adult accompanied by fragments of one vessel of Middle Bronze Age date, both components evenly distributed through the pit fill. The other contained just the cremated bone from one adult. No cremation represented a complete body.
Remains/Period	Y4
County	Dorset
Region	S
National grid square	SY
X coordinate	678
Y coordinate	899
Bibliographic source	Smith, Rawlings and Barnes 1992